Person appearing on the register, as
adopting the child, Mrs. Jane Anne Miller, widow, acting in this matter
for her married sister, domiciled in Switzerland.' Patience!" resumed
Obenreizer, as Vendale, breaking loose from Bintrey, started to his feet.
"I shall not keep the name concealed much longer. Two more little slips
of paper, and I have done. Third proof! Certificate of Doctor Ganz,
still living in practice at Neuchatel, dated July, 1838. The doctor
certifies (you shall read it for yourselves directly), first, that he
attended the adopted child in its infant maladies; second, that, three
months before the date of the certificate, the gentleman adopting the
child as his son died; third, that on the date of the certificate, his
widow and her maid, taking the adopted child with them, left Neuchatel on
their return to England. One more link now added to this, and my chain
of evidence is complete. The maid remained with her mistress till her
mistress's death, only a few years since. The maid can swear to the
identity of the adopted infant, from his childhood to his youth--from his
youth to his manhood, as he is now. There is her address in England--and
there, Mr. Vendale, is the fourth, and final proof!"
"Why do you address yourself to _me_?" said Vendale, as Obenreizer threw
the written address on the table.
Obenreizer turned on him, in a sudden frenzy of triumph.
"_Because you are the man_! If my niece marries you, she marries a
bastard, brought up by public charity.
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